94

I'm a little (okay...a lot) late blogging these, but I wanted to be sure I shared them! My Grandma D. turned 94 in October and our family (minus a a few who couldn't be there) got together at my parents' house to help her celebrate.

LOVE these photos of her with her cake!!

Leslie | Senior

Leslie already had one session of her senior pictures done this fall, but she asked me to do some photos to showcase her sports and her love of Superman! We met up during Christmas break at a photographer friend's studio and then later went to a funky location I recently discovered to do a few more pictures.

Studio photography is not something I usually offer. I am an on-location, natural light photographer. But occasionally I have someone ask for studio photos and am very fortunate to have great photographer friends who let me rent their studio for the session!

And a little different feel in a fun new location!

I really am so excited I found this spot!! It's on the third floor of one of the buildings in town and has some really great details - brick walls, old fixtures, great windows with lots of light, and peeling paint on the walls. I really would love to do anotherphoto session here with kind of a funky, urban feel to it. Any volunteers???

Lauren | Senior

If you follow my blog, you may have already know that when Chris' cousin Lauren asked me to do her senior pictures she wanted summer, fall, and winter photos. With two of those sessions already done, we finished up and did a quick winter session on Christmas Day. This year we had Christmas at Chris' aunt and uncle's house. Their house and property is a great photo spot - especially with a little snow added in!!



I'm not sure how many photos I actually took of Lauren over these three sessions, but this one is up there for one of my favorites!!!!

Josh & Ashley {12.11.10}

I have found that one of the dangers of wedding photography for me is that I end up getting too attached to the couple and just don't want the wedding to end. That was definitely true for Josh and Ashley. I had so much fun doing their engagement photos in September and just new their wedding was going to be so much fun.

Ashley had to make a quick little stop on the morning of her wedding....in between getting her hair and make up done, she had to run to the BMV to renew her license since her birthday was the following week. Love it Ashley - definitely one of my favorite photos of the day!

Love the look on Josh's face, as well as his brother and her brother. They are all so happy!

One of my favorite moments of the day - so sweet!

Mr. and Mrs. Warren!!

Ready to board the "party bus" before the reception...

The girls....all gorgeous and wearing some amazing shoes...

The guys...who were definitely the most easy to work with group of guys I have ever photographed at a wedding!....

My absolute favorite photo of the whole day - I love first dances at weddings. Totally loved their song, too!

Just a few details from the day....

I ♥ Ashley and Josh, too! (This fabulous bridesmaid happens to be my cousin Kelly. THANKS so much for recommending my photography to Ashley and Josh!)
CONGRATULATIONS Josh & Ashley!!! THANKS so much for letting me capture photos of your special day!!

Christmas Morning 2010

Christmas for us was very laid back this year. We were not able to get together with all of my family at once. My parents came to visit before Christmas on their way to Texas. Unfortunatley, I have no pictures of that - probably because we opened gifts at 10:30 at night and were all a little bit tired! Christmas Eve was a little different for us this year. We began going to a new church this past year and absolutely love it. They do not have the traditional Christmas Eve service though. We decided to come up with our own little tradition though - dinner together, followed by some devotion/scripture time as a family, and then movie time together. It was so nice to just spend time together as a family.

Christmas morning was spent with just the four of us - unwrapping gifts from Santa and each other.

Apparently Ernie had an accident similar to Jacob's....we found him with a cast on and his leg propped on a pillow a few days before Christmas. :)

Traditional Christmas morning picture...

Jenna's biggest request from Santa this year was a pink digital camera....

Jenna knitted all of us scarves for Christmas (with a little help from Grandma C.).... Jacob's biggest request this year were Xbox games and an airsoft gun...

Since we didn't have to be anywhere until early afternoon, we were able to spend lots of time relaxing and playing with our gifts!

Jenna got this book from Scott, Brenda, Marcus, Carsyna and Payton and absolutely LOVES it!

Family photo....not sure why I had us pose in front of the tree....you can't even see it! HA!

Christmas 2010

We spent Christmas day at Bob and Celesta's house celebrating Christmas with Chris' family. It was the perfect day - family, lots of good food, gifts, and visiting.

Jenna and Lauren - the zebra girls.... Megan and Chris' mom...

Jenna with her new camera!

Jacob and Becca....

Uncle Bob got creative while signing Jacob's cast!

The gifts....LOTS of them!! Chris...

Lauren and Megan...

Jacob....

Someone is awfully excited about her present....

That's because it was an iPad from all of us!!

Chris' parents.... Megan and Jenna....

Ryan playing with Becca's new "toy"...

Julie and Lauren.... Jenna and Rylee (Bob and Celesta's dog)....

Rylee...

Trying out Lauren's bright pink high heels....